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Gazan women turn to social media to promote home businesses

Amid the bad economic situation, high unemployment rates and the stifling ongoing Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, many Gazan women have turned to social media to market their homemade products and goods.

A Palestinian woman displays a mannequin wearing homemade jewelry during an exhibition entitled "Products of our women" in Gaza City on March 16, 2014.
A Palestinian woman displays a mannequin wearing homemade jewelry during an exhibition entitled "Products of our women" in Gaza City on March 16, 2014. — MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images

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